About Laura
Laura Hennessy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 13 years of experience based in New Jersey. She combines practical talk and steady support to help people who are struggling with mood, substance use, or relationship concerns. Her style is direct but kind, centered on helping people feel heard and gain momentum toward change.
She has worked in community mental health settings with adults and adolescents and knows how life stress and addiction can intersect.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals, learning useful skills, and building motivation to try new steps. Laura draws on approaches that encourage expression, increase insight, and reduce symptoms that interfere with daily life. Clients often bring worries about anxiety, depression, anger, or past trauma.
She also helps people facing intimacy issues, codependency, and struggles with substance use. Laura pays attention to how attachment, abandonment, and communication patterns shape current problems and choices. In the room she uses practical tools from cognitive work and mindfulness alongside relationship-focused techniques.
That mix makes therapy both problem-solving and emotionally responsive. She helps clients practice new ways of thinking and relating between sessions. Therapy with Laura moves at a pace each person can handle.
She supports small, achievable steps and builds on progress over time. The goal is clearer choices, better coping, and improved daily functioning for whoever is ready to take that next step.
Approach-driven care through online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. It aims to create a space where people can talk freely, clarify their goals, and feel supported while they make changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, works on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against reality to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. It is useful for mood issues, stress, and daily coping. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice and shift patterns in close relationships and attachment. It can be helpful for intimacy issues, communication problems, and wounds from past relational trauma.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. That means trying practical exercises, checking what helps, and adjusting methods over time so therapy stays useful.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and body language. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer writing between sessions or need more frequent brief support. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and life demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English